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Professor, Cornell University

I am a Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Religions with a specialty in Early Christianity, Early Judaism, and Religion in Late Antiquity. My primary appointment is in the Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Religious Studies Program at Cornell University, where I hold a joint appointment in the Department of Classics and serve as a member of the graduate fields of Classics, Medieval Studies, and Near Eastern Studies.

My two published books have been about scribal practices, literacy in antiquity, and the transmission of early Christian Literature: Guardians of Letters: Literacy, Power and the Transmitters of Early Christian Literature (Oxford University Press, 2000) is a social history of the scribes who copied Christian texts during the second and third centuries; The Gendered Palimpsest: Women, Writing, and Representation in Early Christianity deals with the intersection of gender and text transmission (Oxford University Press, 2012). My most recent project, Acoustic Encounters in the Late Ancient Desert, explores the dynamic relationships between the sonic dimensions of environmental landscapes and the religious imagination.

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